Uma teoria, no mínimo, interessante: Return of the warrior gays, por Petronella Wyatt, na edição 24 de Setembro do Spectator

There is a famous exchange between the trouser-suited American author Edna Ferber and Noël Coward. Coward: ‘You almost look like a man.’ Ferber: ‘So do you.’ But the days of the aesthetic, effeminate gay are over, at least in the United States. The languid poof is out and the warrior gay is in. Bin the carnation and caustic wit for a uniform and parallel bars. Homosexuals are being encouraged by gay rights groups across the nation to seek inspiration not from the arts world but the military and sports worlds. Indeed, there seems to be a growing backlash against the old-fashioned idea of the homosexual as someone in touch with his feminine side.

It all began with the bombing of the World Trade Center and the Iraq war. The spokesman for American gays, Andrew Sullivan, says, ‘This was the first major war in which the open visible presence of gay Americans cannot be denied. On the homefront we already had heroes. They are not gay heroes. They are American heroes. Remember Mark Bingham, a burly 6ft 5in football player, one of the men who in all likelihood wrestled a plane to the ground in Pennsylvania.

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